Ian Mcewan Quotes
"The best things in life shouldn't be rationed""The human mind is capable of anything""It's always the little decisions that has the biggest impact""There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there""I now bear away with me, O my God, all that I have received, the wind and the wisdom of all human spirits that have been, and now are ""What is there that is too dirty, too sordid, too depressing to be read about or spoken of? If literature cannot deal with the grimy underbelly of life, then what is it for?""When anything can happen, everything matters""The quality of art is that it makes the world strange, and in making it strange makes it vivid and interesting and therefore makes it worth living in.""You enter a state of controlled passivity, allowing your imagination unrestricted freedom.""One beats the bushes; another rakes the fruits""In a story, you only had to wish you were somewhere, and you were there""One has to have the courage of one's pessimism""When we say we know what we are talking about, we mean that we know what we think about something, rather than knowing the facts""Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity"
